Open two tabs in iNat; one tab is a flag (Tab 1) and any different page on iNat like an observation or taxon page (Tab 2)
Resolve the flag in Tab 1
Tab 1 will now load the page from Tab 2 with a banner at the top that says “Flag saved”
Expected result: Tab 1 shows the resolved flag page.
Same issue with:
editing my account settings - no longer the case as of January 2021 account settings redesign
deleting a comment (e.g. my comment on a flag)
committing a taxon change
flagging a user as a non-spammer
suspending a user
subscribing to a flag
changing the site language in the bottom right corner
creating a moderation note
changing occurrence status or establishment means on listed taxa
It’s been this way for a long time. If it’s the intended result, curious why anyone would want it this way, and a kind request to just reload the Tab 1 page instead. :)
@kueda is there any way to prevent this from happening? It’s frustrating when I resolve a flag and want to follow up with a comment, but then when the page reloads after saving the flag, it’s now displaying something completely unrelated (from another iNat tab I have open).
Still happening for me too, and I’ve been remiss on my promise to document it :/ For me it seems to happen with Curator-only windows, like when editing flags, TFRs, taxon pages, etc. Haven’t noticed it when only general-access tabs are open.
Long answer: Generally when you perform some action that alters the state of iNat, we return you to the last page you were on unless we are absolutely sure you always want to be on a certain page after that action, and that’s based on the assumption that submitting data to a particular place doesn’t always mean you want to return to a single place. In this case, resolving a flag is something you can do from the flag detail page or from https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/curation (and maybe elsewhere). On the flag detail page you always want to return to the flag detail page, but on taxa/curation you want to return to taxa/curation, so… we return you to the last page you were on, which works in both scenarios… unless you’re the kind of person who has to open more iNat pages in more windows in the same session, thus making it unclear to us on the server side where you really want to return to after submitting an action.
Short answer: I made it work the way you want, I think.
In response the same browser tab then loaded this page (25M observation announcement). That page was not active in any other tabs at the time, although I had visited it recently (in a different tab) during the same browsing session.
Screenshots of what you are seeing and Description of problem:
Open two browser tabs: one of an observation, another one of a taxon page where that taxon is part of the ID process in the first tab (here Carex leporina is a withdrawn ID)
